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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1942
Page
7
Forty years ago in Bath on February 12 1902 a fierce snow storm paralyzed travel with gale winds and heavy drifting. Electric service ran late. trains and Pullman cars were delayed while plows fought the drifts. The town saw notable events including appointments at Bath Iron Works and local funerals and accidents.
Feb 19 1902 Miss Vietta Gay visits Bangor. Citations include transfers and sales in Cambridge and Rockland. Community notices cover shipyard work, a fire scare in South End, sparring exhibition, and a large social at Miss Burnham’s with a china clock gift. Several birthdays and civic briefings, plus drunkenness cases before Recorder Glidden.
Mrs George L Morrison arranged a Thursday birthday party with New England Telephone and Telegraph Co operators and linemen in the city and a few friends. Mr Morrison, linemen foreman, was given a gold chain with engraved initials. Whist prizes went to Harvey Erskine and Miss Flossie Pepper. Refreshments were served. H H Kimball will begin apprenticeship at C A Harriman's jewelry store in June.
Bath items include James Lockery leaving for a Washington business trip and a family visit by the Spragues from Portland. Maine Central may cut Bath Portland fares to 45 cents May 1 ahead of July electrics. George Davenport retires as Beacon Street church organist. George W. Dean and Mrs. Jennie Norton named to lead choir. Katahdin lodge members enjoyed a Katahdin commandery gathering at Jake's with a shore supper and dancing before returning home.
The 1902 report notes a third new flag for the high school since 1890, displayed Feb 14, funded by pupil contributions. It also covers graduating class size, social fund proceeds, political caucuses, library disturbances, and community events around Patten Library, Prohibitionists, Universalist vestry, and a late afternoon fire engine call.
A fragment notes a partition separating the office from the back shop at Hallets drug store in the Sagada block, indicating interior layout work or a structural change within the shop.
The note recalls a Highland club sleighride to Phippsburg Center and a social at Henry Heald’s home. Wedding attendance, junior Bowdoin event, Washington's birthday bonfire, donkey party at Everett Lemont’s, and prize winners are listed among diverse local activities and arrivals. Changes in business hours, ship and telegraph work, and a local fire call are also noted.
Mrs. Margaret Adams of Weeks street travels to Brunswick to spend the week with her daughter Mrs. Ernest Stanwood.
A vintage consumer guide explains sheet types, detailing muslin and percale quality, weaving, sizing, and how to test fabric without buying. It covers labeling, bed fit, laundering issues, ironing, folding, rotation, and storage to extend sheet life while warning against over sizing and rough handling. It closes with a strange memory note on calculating sound travel in water and depth.
Local druggists lead a tin tube collection drive urging residents to return collapsible toothpaste and shaving cream tubes. With Malay reserves cut off and 6000 tons in use, stores and Boy Scouts coordinate pickups to recycle for reuse, supporting a nationwide effort prompted by Uncle Sam.
Maine occupation statistics cover 1940 labor force in March with 204 215 males and 74 821 females employed in private or nonemergency work and 29 079 men and 6 516 women seeking work. Figures exclude those without experience and public emergency workers. urban rural breakdown to be expanded with cross classifications later.
Members of the hospitality committee Mrs. Perley BE Dunbar and Mrs. Orris I Ames hosted guests including Mrs. N Gratz Jackson and Mrs Evie J Haggett. The association will hold an all day meeting on March 38 with a noon dinner and a baked bean supper in the evening for the Sagadahoc Red Gun and Skeet Association Inc.
Mrs. Jean Wermuth, wife of Capt. Arthur W. Wermuth, credited with killing 116 Japanese in the Philippines and capturing many more, expresses pride in her husband. She is a surgical nurse at Ardmore Hospital in Ferndale, Michigan.
Mr. Metcalf, a veteran silversmith at Campbell's Pond, Maine, runs all stages of metal spinning from toolmaking to mold turning. His work supports a small plant via Richard K. Dimes Co. in Boston while he adapts to a leg ailment by shifting to home-based operations and sitting while completing orders for sterling pieces and bowls.
Court of Probate in Bath Sagadahoc holds February session to probate estates of Edmund Briges Minnie Love Annie Bovaird Lucy Percy and others. Notices order publication in Bath Independent to heirs and interested parties with hearings set for March and roles for executors trustees and licenses to sell real estate.
Register of Probate notes appointments in Bath area estates. Edward W. Bricd appointed public administrator on February 10, 1942. Mary F. Gibbons of Bath named executrix for Annie G. Riggs estate, probate judge attests.
The Massachusetts Horticultural Society prepares a record display at Mechanics Building Boston. As the war continues the 71st annual show opens March 16 for six days, filling five acres with flowers and gardens. Show manager Arno H Nehrling reports it is more than ten percent larger than previous years.
Mrs Henry Minott of 21 Old South Place attended a Portland visit as guest of Mr and Mrs George Roche and Mrs Harry Dame for the wedding of Miss Charlotte Gun Roche to Robert Brent Hitt of Springfield Illinois held Saturday night at St Luke's church.
A new wire fence with heavy steel posts set in concrete is being built around the Kennebec Wharf and Coal Co property on Front Street. It connects with the existing fence protecting the old gas house property and the M. W. Sewall Co yard.
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